Vignon winter morning
Victor VIGNON (1847-1909)
"Winter morning" 1884 Painting, Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Signed lower left "V. Vignon"
About the artist
Victor Alfred Paul Vignon, born December 25, 1847 in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) and died March 15, 1909 in Meulan (Seine-et-Oise), is a landscape painter and a French engraver belonging to the Impressionist group. Victor Vignon comes from a wealthy background. His mother, the sculptor Marie-Noémi Cadiot, known as Madame Claude Vignon, owns a private mansion that Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is responsible for decorating between 1850 and 1860. Student of Camille Corot, advised by Adolphe-Félix Cals, Vignon first worked in Clamart, then in Bougival, then in La Celle-Saint-Cloud where he produced Saulaie in Bougival (1877), Le Chemin de la plaine in Bougival and La Route de la Jonchère in La Celle-Saint-Cloud1. He then moved to Pontoise, then to Jouy-le-Comte. Around 1878-1880, he was found in Auvers-sur-Oise with Camille Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin and Paul Cézanne, where he painted subjects identical to theirs: Chemin de Chaponval (1881), La Côte Saint-Nicolas in Auvers ( 1882), Masures in Auvers (1883). He then moved to Nesles-la-Vallée in Éragny and Isle-Adam as Corot. Vignon is closely linked with Théo and Vincent van Gogh, Doctor Paul Gachet, and the pastry chef-writer-painter Eugène Murer who bought him four paintings: Stormy Sunset, Autumn Effect, Woman with a Goat, Winter Morning, Golden Poplars, Wild Morning and Le Dégel. He is also a friend of Frédéric Samuel Cordey and Auguste Renoir.
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